Is Wizards Printing Too Many Cards?
This is perhaps one of the most divisive topics in Magic: The Gathering, and also one of the oldest.
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The Decline of Standard: What Happened to Magic’s Most Popular Tournament Format?
It’s no secret that in-store Standard has been on the decline over the past few years. Magic has a continued emphasis on digital play, releasing digital-exclusive products and formats alongside their onslaught of paper releases each year.
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Bot Battle: Which Draft Bot Is the Best?
vs at the | Illustrations by Alex Konstad, Daarken, & Craig J Spearingom, respectively Today I’ve got some exciting news for you: Draftsim is part of a Magic data study that’s being presented this week at the IEEE Conference on...
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Strixhaven Draft Data Analysis: The Best Colleges and Cards
| Illustration by Randy Vargas Draftsim has long catered to the nerdier side of Magic (yes that is a thing!) and I’ve always been quite proud of that fact. We’ve done this for years with various data analysis blog articles, including big studies...
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Draftsim’s Early Pick Order For Strixhaven: 50,000+ Drafts Analzyed
You gotta love it — right now is the most exciting time of year here at Draftsim. Strixhaven: School of Mages preview season is over and we’ve finally got our hands on the full spoiler. Draftsim even got three cards to preview this...
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Introducing the Arena Tutor Win Prediction App
In collaboration with Ryan Saxe and Bobby Mills No one: ……….. Us: Yes, of course we can build you something to predict how many wins your draft deck is going to get! As far as I know, this is the first time anyone has ever...
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Draftsim’s Early Pick Order For Kaldheim: 50,000 Drafts Analyzed
Here we are on the brink of Kaldheim’s release, and it’s been four months since we’ve had a new draft format. I don’t know about you, but I am starved. What better way is there to whet your appetite than to talk about...
Read moreTheros Beyond Death Early Pick Order By Archetype
Looking for some direction early on in this Theros Beyond Death draft format? We’ve got some card rankings to help you out. These lists are generated by a machine learning algorithm created by Ryan Saxe based on around 100,000 of your...
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Bot Drafting the Hard Way: A New Drafting Model for Archetypes and Staying Open
Ryan Saxe analyzes over 80,000 Draftsim drafts and creates a drafting bot that both understands archetypes and knows how to stay open during a draft.
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Ravnica Allegiance First Look: Ravnica Remixed
By Dan Troha and Arseny Khakhalin I think it’s safe to say that everyone had pretty similar expectations about Ravnica Allegiance going into its release — it would look very similar to Guilds of Ravnica for limited. After all, there...
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Guilds of Ravnica First Look: Controversy Abound
By Arseny Khakhalin, Dan Troha, and Bobby Mills Believe it or not, we’re already four weeks deep into the Guilds of Ravnica draft environment! We’ve had a couple of Grand Prix tournaments, tons of drafting on Arena and Magic Online, and of course...
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Draft Data Analysis 2: How Much Does a Format Change in One Month? [M19]
By Dan Troha, Arseny Khakhalin, and Bobby Mills As we finally say goodbye to M19 and welcome in Guilds of Ravnica (appearing on Draftsim this Wednesday), our team at Draftsim wanted to take a final look at Magic Core 2019 to see what we can learn...
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